Friday, 20 February 2015

Brent Fightback will be presenting an Invoice to local represenatives of the Coalition partners tomorrow for all the money that has been taken away from Brent residents through the cuts in local government funding. Fightback encourages local people, suffering from the cuts, to join them for just a few minutes at Willesden Green (2pm) or Preston Road (3pm) or both.

They are tripartite cuts from the varying shades of Tory. Barry Gardiner joined the Tories in January and voted for Osborne's spending cuts. Link to vote herehttp://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2015-01-13&number=129&mpn=Barry_Gardiner&mpc=Brent_North&house=commons

I accept that the cuts in local government are a result of the Coalition cutting funding to local government. I also accept that local government is acting as an agent of the Coalition in pushing those cuts through rather than mounting a massive campaign of resistance. I accept that this is a failure of the wider movement. Unfortunately I also accept that an incoming Labour government is unlikely to change the situation.

You note that an incoming Labour Government is unlkely to change the situation.

Perhaps the Lib Dem Parliamentary candidate for Brent North is relying on a sort of parity of electoral credibility with Labour and also responding to the invoicing of his party colleague Sarah Teather MP (Brent Central) who is standing down at the forthcoming General Election.link

It's a funny time to stage a protest. Do you really expect to find anyone in these offices on a Saturday less than three months from the election? Surely they'll all be out the on the streets. Or is this all really just a photo opportunity?

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